Isabella's POV After I had broken all my ties with Thelma I thought maybe Mike would beat me. It was all a lie. Mike did not stop hurting me. He hit me at the slightest of mistakes, he called me names. He abused me both physically, emotionally and psychologically. He created a deep fear in me then. I realised that he wouldn't stop hurting me and I began to regret my decision of cutting all my ties with Thelma. There was nothing I could do then, I was completely hopeless and helpless. I had believed in myself that it was Mike who would kill me. I lived with Mike with regrets. I wished I didn't become his girlfriend, I wished I'd listened to Thelma when she started noticing these things and she told me to leave him alone. I wished I hadn't answered Mike whe

